Michel, how do you see the intersection of the three coalitions with the Global Solution Networks<https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100666540255152085162/stream/0b84e7c8-83b3-47b5-b3ab-5f89f3ac5956> ?
g. On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Anna Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Michel, The beginning of something reaally powerful. > > Add this into the mix: Is knowing obsolete? Sugata Mitra > > http://youtu.be/y3jYVe1RGaU > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> this proposal will appear april 2 on the p2p blog, >> >> Michel Bauwens: >> >> The recent success of a global mobilization (500+ participants and >> collectives in 23 countries and over 50 cities) to collaborative map >> P2P-driven, commons-oriented, collaboration/sharing-based initiatives in >> hispanic countries, has shown a grassroots hunger for more mutual >> coordination to enhance the capacity to initiate social change. I would >> like to add the hypothesis that what is in the making is not just a new >> social imaginery, but also a potential new political subject. To build and >> obtain more civic infrastructures to enable and empower autonomous social >> production, I believe we must move to mutualize our forces and create a new >> set of political, social and economic institutions which can have >> ‘transitional’ effects, i.e. prepare the ground for a phase-transition to a >> political economy and civilization in which socially and environmentally >> friendly free association between autonomous producers and citizens become >> the norm. >> >> *I believe the time is there to start constructing the following three >> institutional coalitions:* >> >> ** The civic/political institution: The Alliance of the Commons* >> >> An alliance of the commons is an alliance, meeting place and network of >> p2p-commons oriented networks, associations, places; who do not have >> economic rationales. These alliances can be topical, local, transnational, >> etc … An example is the initiative Paris Communs Urbains which is >> attempting to create a common platform for urban commons intiatives in the >> Paris region; another Parisian/French example is the freecultural network >> Libre Savoirs, which is developing a set of policy proposals around digital >> rights. (both examples were communicated to me by Lionel Maurel). >> >> An alliance of the commons is a meeting place and platform to formulate >> policy proposals that enhance civic infrastructures for the commons. >> >> ** The economic institution: the P2P/Commons Globa-local « Phyle »* >> >> A phyle (as orgiginally proposed by lasindias.net) is a coalition of >> commons-oriented, community-supportive ethical enterprises which trade and >> exchange in the market to create livelyhoods for commoners and peer >> producers engaged in social production. The use of a peer production >> licence keeps the created exchange value within the sphere of the commons >> and strengthens the existence of a more autonomous counter-economy which >> refuses the destructive logic of profit-maximisation and instead works to >> increase benefits for their own, but also the emerging global commons. >> Phyles created integrated economies around the commons, that render them >> more autonomous and insure the social reproduction of its members. >> Hyperproductive global phyles that generate well-being for their members >> will gradually create a counterpower to the hitherto dominant MNO’s. >> >> ** The political-economy institution: The Chamber of the Commons* >> >> In analogy with the well-known chambers of commerce which work on the >> infrastructure for for-profit enterprise, the Commons chamber exclusively >> coordinates for the needs of the emergent coalitions of commons-friendly >> ethical enterprises (the phyles), but with a territorial focus. Their aim >> is to uncover the convergent needs of the new commons enterprises and to >> interface with territorial powers to express and obtain their >> infrastructural, policy and legal needs. >> *In short, we need a alliance of the commons to project civil and >> political power and influence at every level of society; we need phyles to >> strengthen our economic autonomy from the profit-maximizing dominant >> system; and we need Chambre of the Commons to achieve territorial policy; >> legal and infrastructural conditions for the alternative, human and >> nature-friendly political economy to thrive. Neither alone is sufficient, >> but together they could be a powerful triad for the necessary phase >> transition.* >> >> -- >> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >> >> <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: >> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >> >> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> P2P Foundation - Mailing list >> http://www.p2pfoundation.net >> https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > http://www.p2pfoundation.net > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > >
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